101 Reasons to Stop Writing

The Fundamentals of Our Publishing are Wrong

 
This Month's Demotivator:

Nature: Your January Demotivator

NATURE
If your book is published, this forest is gone.

NATURE Demotivator (Medium)
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Original Photo by Gabor Karpati of Morguefile.

 

8 Comments

  1. Viki:

    OMG! I never thought of that! I love the trees so much!

    I guess I’ll have to distribute my writing online instead! And, that way, I won’t even have to deal with that whole slushpile nonsense.

    I’m going to go create a .pdf right now, and offer it for sale on my blog!

    Thank you, thank you, for helping me see the light.

    Happy New Year!

  2. Ah yes, botanical homicide. The secret agenda of the shitty writer’s league. What’s the world with a few less trees…marginally dumber? Who needs that extra oxygen anyways.

    These really make me happy. Keep em coming!

  3. My novels are printed on wood from sustainable timber plantations – says so in the back ;-)

    Thinks, don’t they get toilet paper from the same source?

  4. Anthony, I think the term you’re looking for is “arboreal genocide”.

    Simon, it’s funny you should mention, my toilet paper says “Made from 100% recycled Australian SF remainders” on the back.

  5. Hehehehehe, I love those demotivators :) So funny… :D

  6. I wonder if anyone’s told Al?

  7. Mishal:

    Wow, I almost feel bad about my WIP’s in progress now. I love forests too!

    Anyway, I think I’ll be a regular read to this blog now, having finally followed that link from P.T. Riddell to see what he was going on about.

    Nevertheless, keep up the good writing (which it is, no matter what the sweet, sweet lies you tell yourself so you can sleep at night are *wink*), if you can nip more Laurell K. Hamilton wannabees in the bud then more power and Internets to you!

  8. Hemp paper, people! Then we don’t get rid of the forest we get rid of the illegal drug use (actually hemp paper comes from a plant that is different from marijuana and you can’t get high off it.)

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